Ukraine’s vape market is 93% illegal. The trail leads to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Smuggled from Poland and barely taxed, the shadow trade drains a country at war—and the network behind it ties back to Oleg Boyko.
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VOA: Russian citizen sentenced by US court for smuggling OLED microdisplays to Russia
FBI's crackdown on an international network led by Maksim Marchenko resulted in a three-year sentence for the smuggling of sensitive microelectronics used in Russian weapons.
Ukraine dismantles hi-tech contraband ring that used drones for smuggling cigarettes and monitoring border patrols
Ukrainian border guards successfully apprehended a smuggling group from Volyn that employed drones for contraband smuggling and border patrol surveillance.
Inside the booming smuggling business in the Donbas
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold,…